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Author | : Andrew Jay Hoffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780753804582 |
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This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Author | : Andrew J. Hoffman |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1997-02-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780688127695 |
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This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Author | : Selina Lai-Henderson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804794758 |
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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.
Author | : Peter Krass |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0470117206 |
Download Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While the entire world knows Mark Twain as the renowned author of many classic American novels, few people are aware that he was also a highly successful businessman. In fact, more than half of his life was consumed by moneymaking pursuits, which often resulted in writing projects being neglected--but at the same time, these adventures were the inspiration behind many of the characters found in his books. In Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends, Peter Krass captures a little-known side of this American icon and details the roller coaster ride of his business ventures in a dramatic, entertaining, and informative narrative style. From Twain's time as the founder of his own publishing house--where he made a small fortune publishing General Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs--to his foray into venture capitalism and investment in numerous start-up firms, to his focus on his own inventions, this engaging book reveals the Mark Twain that few of us know: the no-nonsense, successful American businessman.
Author | : Seth Lerer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0231541244 |
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A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, “written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language” (The Washington Post). Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his “remarkable linguistic investigation” (Booklist) features a new chapter on the influence of biblical translation and an epilogue on the relationship of English speech to writing. A unique blend of historical and personal narrative, both “erudite and accessible” (The Globe and Mail), Inventing English is the surprising tale of a language that is as dynamic as the people to whom it belongs. “Lerer is not just a scholar; he's also a fan of English—his passion is evident on every page of this examination of how our language came to sound—and look—as it does and how words came to have their current meanings…the book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author | : Ron Powers |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2001-10-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0306820315 |
Download Dangerous Water Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While Mark Twain remains one of our most quintessentially American writers, the actual boyhood experiences that fueled his most enduring literature remained largely unexplored—until now. Twain's early years were a decidedly un-innocent time, marked by deaths of friends and family and his father's bankruptcy. Twain dealt with those personal tragedies through humor and the tall tale. From the time that a ten-year-old Samuel Clemens lit out on his own and boarded his first Mississippi steamer to his first encounter with a traveling "mesmerizer" (which ignited his lifelong penchant for acting and spectacle), from the brooding sense of guilt and fear of eternal damnation inculcated into him at church to the superstitions and stories of witchcraft he learned from the blacks on his farm, Powers unforgettably shows how Mark Twain was shaped by the distinctly American landscape, culture, and people of Hannibal, Missouri. Jay Parini, the celebrated biographer of Robert Frost, called Dangerous Water "a long-needed evocation of the boyhood of the man who invented boyhood for all time. . . . An immensely shrewd and deeply engaging book, a great gift to all of us who love Twain."
Author | : Alan Pell Crawford |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 0544836464 |
Download How Not to Get Rich Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed and humorous account of the various disastrous money schemes and entrepreneurial pursuits of Mark Twain, who was noted for his spectacularly bad financial decisions during the Gilded Age
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
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Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.
Author | : Lynda Pflueger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766010932 |
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Better known as Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens is one of America's most loved writers. Like the characters in his novels, Twain's life was filled with exciting adventures. He navigated the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot, mined for riches in the American West, and traveled all over the world. In this book, author Lynda Pflueger traces the life of the man who used his childhood experiences growing up near the Mississippi River to write the popular stories that have made him one of the greatest humorists in American literature.
Author | : Laura Skandera Trombley |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307474941 |
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Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, reveals the never-before-read letters and daily journals of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain’s last personal secretary. For six years, Isabel Lyon was responsible for running the aging Man in White’s chaotic household, nursing him through several illnesses and serving as his adoring audience. But after a dramatic breakup of their relationship, Twain ranted in personal letters that she was “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction.” For decades, biographers omitted Isabel from the official Twain history at his decree. But now, the truth of the split is exposed at last in a story that sheds light on a lionized author’s final decade.